diff --git a/backend/cmd/assets/main.go b/backend/cmd/assets/main.go
index 5627d0be8..044fb848c 100644
--- a/backend/cmd/assets/main.go
+++ b/backend/cmd/assets/main.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func main() {
 		cfg.S3BucketAssets,
 		cfg.AssetsOrigin,
 		cfg.AssetsSizeLimit,
+		cfg.AssetsRequestHeaders,
 		metrics,
 	)
 
diff --git a/backend/internal/assets/cacher/cacher.go b/backend/internal/assets/cacher/cacher.go
index fe8cc7ef8..365ecbfbe 100644
--- a/backend/internal/assets/cacher/cacher.go
+++ b/backend/internal/assets/cacher/cacher.go
@@ -31,9 +31,17 @@ type cacher struct {
 	Errors           chan error
 	sizeLimit        int
 	downloadedAssets syncfloat64.Counter
+	requestHeaders   map[string]string
 }
 
-func NewCacher(region string, bucket string, origin string, sizeLimit int, metrics *monitoring.Metrics) *cacher {
+func NewCacher(
+	region string,
+	bucket string,
+	origin string,
+	sizeLimit int,
+	requestHeaders map[string]string,
+	metrics *monitoring.Metrics,
+) *cacher {
 	rewriter := assets.NewRewriter(origin)
 	if metrics == nil {
 		log.Fatalf("metrics are empty")
@@ -55,6 +63,7 @@ func NewCacher(region string, bucket string, origin string, sizeLimit int, metri
 		Errors:           make(chan error),
 		sizeLimit:        sizeLimit,
 		downloadedAssets: downloadedAssets,
+		requestHeaders:   requestHeaders,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -74,15 +83,17 @@ func (c *cacher) cacheURL(requestURL string, sessionID uint64, depth byte, urlCo
 	}
 
 	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", requestURL, nil)
-	req.Header.Set("Cookie", "ABv=3;") // Hack for rueducommerce
 	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0")
+	for k, v := range c.requestHeaders {
+		req.Header.Set(k, v)
+	}
 	res, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Errors <- errors.Wrap(err, urlContext)
 		return
 	}
 	defer res.Body.Close()
-	if res.StatusCode != 200 {
+	if res.StatusCode >= 400 {
 		// TODO: retry
 		c.Errors <- errors.Wrap(fmt.Errorf("Status code is %v, ", res.StatusCode), urlContext)
 		return
diff --git a/backend/internal/config/assets/config.go b/backend/internal/config/assets/config.go
index 13c49bf03..1dfc8a4a8 100644
--- a/backend/internal/config/assets/config.go
+++ b/backend/internal/config/assets/config.go
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ import (
 
 type Config struct {
 	common.Config
-	GroupCache      string `env:"GROUP_CACHE,required"`
-	TopicCache      string `env:"TOPIC_CACHE,required"`
-	AWSRegion       string `env:"AWS_REGION,required"`
-	S3BucketAssets  string `env:"S3_BUCKET_ASSETS,required"`
-	AssetsOrigin    string `env:"ASSETS_ORIGIN,required"`
-	AssetsSizeLimit int    `env:"ASSETS_SIZE_LIMIT,required"`
+	GroupCache           string            `env:"GROUP_CACHE,required"`
+	TopicCache           string            `env:"TOPIC_CACHE,required"`
+	AWSRegion            string            `env:"AWS_REGION,required"`
+	S3BucketAssets       string            `env:"S3_BUCKET_ASSETS,required"`
+	AssetsOrigin         string            `env:"ASSETS_ORIGIN,required"`
+	AssetsSizeLimit      int               `env:"ASSETS_SIZE_LIMIT,required"`
+	AssetsRequestHeaders map[string]string `env:"ASSETS_REQUEST_HEADERS"`
 }
 
 func New() *Config {
diff --git a/backend/internal/config/configurator/configurator.go b/backend/internal/config/configurator/configurator.go
index a2cab1029..cfd7732ff 100644
--- a/backend/internal/config/configurator/configurator.go
+++ b/backend/internal/config/configurator/configurator.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package configurator
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log"
@@ -87,6 +88,12 @@ func parseFile(a interface{}, path string) {
 					continue
 				}
 				val.Field(i).SetInt(int64(d))
+			case "map[string]string":
+				var stringMap map[string]string
+				if json.Unmarshal([]byte(value), &stringMap); err != nil {
+					log.Printf("can't parse map[string]string value: %s", err)
+				}
+				val.Field(i).Set(reflect.ValueOf(stringMap))
 			default:
 				log.Println("unknown config type: ", val.Type().Field(i).Type.String())
 			}
diff --git a/backend/pkg/env/vars.go b/backend/pkg/env/vars.go
index eb88b3c6b..1dbc346b0 100644
--- a/backend/pkg/env/vars.go
+++ b/backend/pkg/env/vars.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package env
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
@@ -56,3 +57,16 @@ func Bool(key string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
+
+func StringMapOptional(key string) map[string]string {
+	v := StringOptional(key)
+	if v == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var stringMap map[string]string
+
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(v), &stringMap); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalln(key + ": wrong json format. Expected string map")
+	}
+	return stringMap
+}